The remainder of the first season is dedicated to the memory of our dear departed friend, Peter Weisenburger (1971-2012).

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The original web series “Intersection” follows two sets of
friends - no-longer-that-young artists and professionals, struggling to
let go of unrealized dreams, trust in what they’ve got, and walk away
from what’s safe to take a chance on happiness. Career, friendship
and romantic relationships intersect as they continue to discover that sometimes
“making it” in the big city can be more like making it through.

Episode 1

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 - A surprise visitor throws a wrench into a couple's evening plans.

Episode 2

Thursday, March 5th, 2009 - New beginnings for several different people creates excitement, anxiety and a lot of questions.

Episode 3

Thursday, March 5th, 2009 - Two separate groups of friends get together over drinks and games to catch up and swap stories.

Episode 4

Friday, March 6th, 2009 - Karen tries to pick up the pieces and jump start her new life while Darlene has an audition that goes awry.

Episode 5

Monday, March 16th, 2009 - Darlene starts at a new temp job while the realities of a new business set in for Lynda. Meanwhile, Cindy catches up with an old friend.

Episode 6

Friday, March 27th, 2009 - The girls go on an outing to see a musician Cindy is curious about as Jeff starts to wear out his welcome.

Episode 7

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 - Hal lays down the law while a co-worker has a surprise for Karen.

Episode 8

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 - New friends get to know each other better over lunch and Cindy's sister comes for a visit.

Episode 9

Friday, April 3rd, 2009 - Karen may have forgotten an important date as Megan and Cindy have a little too much to drink.

Episode 10

Friday, April 3rd, 2009 - Cindy walks her sister to the train station and Hal helps Jeff look for an apartment.

Episode 11

Friday, April 10th, 2009 - Jeff does some recon while Cindy starts a new collaboration.

Episode 12

Friday, April 10th, 2009 - Lynda has her date as Jeff continues his apartment search.

Episode 13

Saturday, April 11th, 2009 - Jeff comes up with a plan while Cindy and Darlene go to visit Denton's family.

Trailer

Trailer for Myriad Arts upcoming web series "Intersection"
starring Gabe Silva, Jessica Stone, Becca Ayers, Stephen Ott, Cotton
Wright and Merritt Minnemeyer. The song is "This Is: The Graduation
Song" written and performed by Jenn Grinels. "Intersection"
premieres on Blip on January 31st. 2012.

Named after the famous baseball poem “Casey at the Bat”,
Casey’s dream of playing professional ball only took him as far
as Farmingdale State’s college team. Passed over by recruiters,
Casey and his buddy bartended their way out of Long Island to Manhattan.
Casey married young and up, and for a wedding present his well-to-do
wife asked daddy for a bar. Unlike the marriage (which tanked after
a year) “Casey’s” has thrived and its namesake is
happy enough to simply profit off selling drinks during the World Series
instead of playing in the game.

Cindy has always been a performer – from belting showtunes
at family reunions as a child to dominating talent shows in high school
and then college. Through most of her formative life, she was always
the most talented person in the room – the voice of an angel,
the ability to master almost any instrument and perhaps most of all
– that intangible stage presence most artists would kill for.
It was only natural for her to move to New York, but upon arrival, she
quickly realized wasn’t the belle of every ball anymore. Though
her talent was undeniable, it took her awhile to develop the work ethic
and the drive she required to have an impact on the New York music scene.
After years of toiling, she finally has figured it out – finding
the right collaborators, the right songs and the right image to acquire
a following. In terms of her personal life, Cindy is a bit of serial
monogamist – going through medium-length relationships with the
same pattern. High hopes and strong attraction to them in the beginning
and then the apathy and the boredom set in. With every guy she dated,
she always felt there was something missing. A year and a half ago,
she met the first person to break that pattern. However, no relationship
could ever distract Cindy from her ultimate goal – to become a
star.

Darlene’s gift for acting comes from the innate ability
to empathize. She has this unusual gift of being able to step into someone
else’s shoes and almost immediately get underneath what they are
feeling. That made her choice of occupation almost inevitable. The side
effect of this gift, however, is a great deal of emotions that she hasn’t
quite figured out how to manage yet. Having gone to college in New York,
she was able to find moderate success somewhat early, doing a great
deal of paid regional productions of Shakespeare, Chekov, Moliere, Ibsen,
Ostrovsky with a few originals mixed in. Lately, she’s felt like
she needs to stay in New York for a longer period of time if she wants
to advance to the next level, but that’s led to a bit of a slump.
She knew very early on that she didn’t like boys and she’s
grown very comfortable with that, but she hasn’t had much success
with relationships thus far. Another side effect of her empathy gift
(curse?) is that she pours herself into whomever she’s dating,
which often leaves her vulnerable.

It seems like decades ago when Denton and Cindy were the underground
music scene’s first couple, but as it happens, it was only the
early 2000’s. She loved how mature and calm he was, not to mention
talented. He provided just the right amount of support and encouragement
at just the right time in her life. She provided excitement and made
him feel much younger than he was. And that age gap, though minor, would
lead to their break-up. Denton adored Cindy, but he knew deep down that
she was not remotely close to being ready to settle down whereas Denton
was tiring of the blood, sweat and tears it takes to launch an indie
band and had ideas of family in the back of his mind. Their needs no
longer meshed they way they used to. They separated amicably and not
long after, Denton met the woman he would marry and have kids with.
Aside from his children, he regards maintaining a friendship with Cindy
throughout all this as one of his proudest accomplishments.

Hal was born and raised in the Midwest and was recruited by
a big-time software developer right out of college. Hal preferred the
energy of the city versus the views of Silicon Valley, so he opted for
the company’s New York offices and worked with them there for
the first ten years of his working life. He had a normal sort of dating
life – went out with a women a few times. If it worked out, they
went out more. If not, they stopped. No drama. Then, he met Iris. And
their dates kept working out. A year passed. And then another. Before
long, she wanted to move in. Hal had always envisioned himself as a
family man and this was the next natural step, but for some reason the
thought of co-habitating frightened him. Still, he relented. Around
this same time, he began to feel frustrated and stuck at his job, spending
ten years writing boring cookie cutter programs for everything from
tax calculations to magazine subscription analysis. When offered the
chance to quit his cushy corporate job and take a lead role in developing
a start-up, he took a pay cut to do so. It was probably the biggest
risk he ever took in his life. So far.

Iris grew up not too far from the city – in suburban
Long Island and always kind of figured to spend her 20’s in New
York. Though she didn’t plan on living in the city for most of
her life, she thought it was important to have that experience. Of course,
it was in her late 20’s that she met Hal, so those plans on retreating
to suburban life are on hold – at least for now. Surprisingly
enough, she was a Psychology major, but that was more a product of not
knowing what else to major in. She fell into teaching history in a similar
way – a girlfriend said they needed good people and she volunteered,
got her certificate and found she enjoyed it. Though she did love the
shaping young minds and all that, she secretly enjoyed the power as
well – even if it was just over teenagers. Though there were lots
of challenging moments, she was happy enough. And that’s sort
of how she looks at her relationship with Hal. He’s occasionally
irresponsible, immature, inconsiderate and distracted, but much of the
time, he’s sweet, loving, intelligent and talented. So, Iris is
fairly content. And since she never expected more than that, she’s
not disappointed.

Jeff Sutcliffe is from Ballwin, Missouri – born and bred.
Even his grandparents are from Ballwin and almost his entire extended
family live within a four-mile radius. It’s the only life Jeff
has ever known and the thought of not living in or near Ballwin never
really entered his mind – until recently. He was dating Brenda
Hopkins and though they aren’t high school sweethearts per se,
they did know each other in high school. In fact, their families lived
down the block from one another. Brenda had the romantic notion that
suggested they were meant for each other from the beginning. They seemed
to all parties to be perfect for one another. During the three and a
half years they were together, Jeff had successfully evaded any discussion
of marriage or engagement. This never troubled Brenda because in her
mind, it was a foregone conclusion. The question, the kneeling and the
ring were just a formality. Then, one day, it occurred to Jeff to ask
himself why he was evading in the first place. That opened up the floodgates
and all sorts of doubts entered his mind about the course his life was
taking. Suddenly, the walls of Ballwin, Missouri were closing in on
Jeff – and fast…

Karen used to be an actor. She went to theater school and studied
Meisner and moved to New York and went on 1,001 auditions, booking a few
off-off-Broadway things along the way. One day, she realized that she
simply didn’t care anymore. The passion she had for pursuing the
arts was practically extinguished – she determined that it was time
for her to grow up. She took the full-time job because that’s the
sensible choice if you are ready to get married and have kids. She has
been with her boyfriend Vince for nearly two and a half years now (he
still is an actor, so she lives vicariously through him for any residue
theatrical yearnings she has) and decided she is ready to move to the
next phase of their relationship and her life because you know –
that’s what normal people do…

Dance was the love of Lynda’s life, until a debilitating
injury cut that dream short. Overwhelmed by what to do next, she tried
everything under the sun from temping to hostessing to dressing up as
cartoon characters at trade shows. She finally found the peace she wanted
in yoga – first as a student and then as an instructor. She became
a private instructor a few years ago and now has enough students to be
able to make that her full-time occupation. She is even thinking about
expanding. In all this time, however, she has all but ignored dating and
her personal life, partly because she has been busy and partly because
she is still trying to understand who this new Lynda really is.

Megan was practically an adult at age 7. She realized early on
what was expected of her – good grades that turned into a good college
that turned into a good job. One major frustration of her life is that
those same expectations weren’t passed along to her younger sister,
Cindy. She was so young and cute and fun and could sing so she got special
treatment, but Megan knew that nothing practical would come from those
qualities. As they grew up together, Megan would try to instill some of
those “mature” values in her sister, but only succeeded in
pushing her further down her rebellious, artsy path of poverty. Megan
tells herself that it’s just a phase and hopes to steer Cindy back
to the straight and narrow before too long. She hopes that someday Cindy
will see how happy she is with her stable, corporate job and her suburban
apartment with no distractions like a relationship or those unattainable
pipe dreams that Cindy always seems to be chasing.

Nathaniel didn’t discover music until late in the game.
He always played – he learned guitar at an early age, growing up
in southern New Hampshire and was writing his own songs in middle school.
However, he never thought of it as a viable career. He was recruited by
Wall Street right out of college and spent most of his twenties wheeling
and dealing, selling and trading. He was very aware that he didn’t
enjoy the life or the career, but he rationalized it by telling himself
that living comfortably was the most important thing. During this time,
he would still write and make scattered appearances at open mic nights
throughout the city. 9/11, followed by the Enron scandal, put things in
perspective for Nathaniel. He had the only epiphany he’s ever really
had – music is what he was meant to do. And his business experience
taught him that if he was going to do it, he was going to need to be “all-in”.
He quit his day job and started focusing on his music career. Everything
else in his life took a back seat, including his relationships with women.
Everyone he dated all recognized that he had a great heart, but they would
quickly get frustrated when they realized that they were second fiddle
to his music. In the back of his mind, Nathaniel knew that he would need
to find a woman that understood his drive and the nature of the creative
soul.

Vince is a working actor, which is more than a lot of actors
can say. He got his degree from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts,
which gets a bad rap, but what it lacks in terms of teaching theory and
sense memory, it more than makes up for in teaching actors how to market
themselves – and that is Vince’s specialty. He works in commercials
all the time and recently has been doing a lot of stand-in work on big
movies and TV shows. It may not get him the face time that he wants, but
he loves being around that level of creativity and success. It’s
part of what made him want to do this in the first place. The paycheck
doesn’t hurt either and as an added bonus, he gets to tell people
that he’s worked with Spielberg, Fincher, Mann – even if he
never actually met any of them. While he’s never thought of himself
as a settling-down type, he’s found himself in a long term relationship
for the past three years. She used to be an actor, but quit to focus on
more realistic (read: boring) pursuits, but in many ways that’s
a big part of her appeal. Her practicality gives him the safety net he
needs to live a more free-wheeling, risk-taking lifestyle. She takes care
of him in ways that he’s never been able to take care of himself.
Most of the time, that’s a great comfort to Vince. Other times,
it feels claustrophobic.